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Ghost in the Shell 1.5: Human-Error Processor (攻殻機動隊/Kōkaku Kidōtai 1.5: Human-Error Processor) is a set of four chapters that were left out of the Ghost in the Shell 2: Man/Machine Interface tankōbon by Masamune Shirow himself. The four chapters are: "Fat Cat", "Drive Slave", "Mines of Mind" and "Lost Past". As with each of the earlier Ghost in the Shell serializations, this was also serialized in Kodansha's Young Magazine.

Chapters[]

# Title Year
01 Fat Cat 1991
02 Drive Slave 1992
03 Mines of Mind 1995
04 Lost Past 1996

Plot[]

The story continues following Section 9 and their covert ops investigations.

Fat Cat[]

1991: A young woman calls Section 9 to investigate her father's recent strange actions, and he turns out to be operated (through his electronic brain) by remote control.

Drive Slave[]

1992: Chroma (a.k.a. the Major) returns when her bounty hunt collides with Section 9's witness protection case.

Mines of Mind[]

1995: A cyber-date gets interrupted by an arms dealer's murder, which leads to a cyborg shoot-out at the marina and the reappearance of an agent's old friend.

Lost Past[]

1996: The investigation into a kidnapping gone wrong leads to a covert operation by another government department into Okinawa terrorism.

Japanese Editions[]

The first collected Japanese edition was published in 2003 and is 184 pages long. It contains a Booklet, a CD-ROM that features the full stories and adds music to the manga scenes. It also has a screen saver.

English Editions[]

Announced at the 2005 San Diego Comic Con, the series was released as 8 individual comic-sized issues before being collected in trade paperback format. This will be the first of the Ghost in the Shell manga released in the U.S. to read right-to-left. The first issue came out 2006-10-18 [1].

The trade paperback was released on 2007-10-10.

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